Improvement in lamp-brackets



HUNTER & BLEWITT.

I Lamp Bracket.

Patented June 29, 1869.-

dilated saw aiiiklii dtfiflim A THOMAS A. HUNTER .AND JOHN BLEWITT, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 92,053, dated June 29, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BRACKETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ol thesame.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that we, THOMAS A. HUNTER and Jonx BLEwrTr, of the city and State of New York, have invented and made anew and useful Improvement in Lamps; 'and'we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the saidinvention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part ofthis specification, wherein- Fi ure 1 is'a, side view of our lamp auditsholder.

Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the same below the line a: a5.

Figure 3 is a section of the base of thelamp-holder in a slightlymodified form.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

We makeuse of a lamp' with a fountain or reservoir, a, that'rises.higher than the burner-collar b, and introduce arcylinder, c, that isfitted tightly to place and receives the wick of the burner, the same asshown in our Letters Patent, granted November 3, 1868, No. 83,711. 7

Our present invention consists in projections or ribs running more orless around the reservoir, combined with clips by which the lamp'isattached to a gas fixture, to the edge of atable, shelf, mantel, orother horizontal support, or may be connected to a vertical support,such as the edge of a door or biind, the m ullions or sash-bars of awindow, or other convenient place of attachment.

The projections or ribs e are upon the lower part of the reservoir a,and ff are the clips for receiving and supporting the reservoir. Theseclips may be made with three arms, two of which are hook-ended and theother provided with a screw or other means for clamping, and these clipsmay be adapted to setting upon the end of a gas-fixtura as seen at g,fig. 3.

We have shown, and prefer that the clips f f stand as arms from the"vertical pivot 71, that sets into a hole into any desired positionhorizontally.

clip, with a clamping-screw, l, and a second hole, as

so that the pivot It can be entered therein when the clip is is attachedto the edge of a shelf or other horizontal article. In the drawing thisclip I: is shown as or other vertical article.

its position is permanent, and the two holes for the cally orhorizontally, as may be most convenient. 1 g

If the rib e was made upon the bottom of the reser-- voir, it might beshaped so that the books or means stead of from the outside. 7

Patent, isv 1. The clips f, fitted to receive the lower part of theforth.

'2. The bracket, or socket k, formed with two holes at right angles toeach other, for receiving the pivot h, and provided with 'theclamping-screw l, as and for the purposes set forth.

natures, this 17th day of April, A. D. 1869.

' T. A. HUNTER.

. J OHN BLEWITT.

Witn esscs I CHAS. H. SMITH, GEo. '1. PINCKKEY.-

in the socket It, so as to allow of the lamp being swung v The bracket,or socket k, is made use three-sided V at 1', passes through theprojecting end of the bracket,

,iu a'positi'on for being attached to the edge of blind Provision ismade for the introductionof screws at. m, so that the; bracket-can besustained by them when t pivot it allow said bracket to beattachedeither vertiof attachment act outwardly from withinsaid ring ina What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters lamp-reservoir, incombination with; the rib or projection upon said reservoir, as and-forthe purposes set I 3 In witness whereof, we have hereunto setour sig-

